New town new post..

Been a long while since I posted an Update..

I've moved job and moved home. I'm now in a great little town called Littleport near Cambridge. I've found a new RC club and have a couple of new cars :)

The new club are about to build a permanent outdoor off-road track so I'm very excited about that. I've delayed the finishing of my Sand rat project to use the car as a club car and host a Macnum championship. I have 2 Macnum's already and will hopefully have 2 more for when the track opens next year.

I also have one of the outstanding new Maverick XB Evo's and a Maverick Scout the Rock Crawler. Both are very high spec and I'm looking forward to hop-in them up and running them in some competitions next year.

I'll post some pics of the new cars soon.

Custom bits!

This weekend will see me making my first custom parts for my Sandrat... body mounts.

Nothing special but still needed to support the Baja shell.

Next will be a new chassis plate, not to replace the current chassis but to augment and to allow me to have front and rear alloy bumpers :)

My First Build Post!!

The Sand Rat is coming :)

At least it's Logo anyway :)

Something coming!!

Been focused on the Westhill club for the last few months but I have something cool coming soon.

I've entered into a build off competition on the URC forums and have decided to do a modification of an Ansmann macnum. My basic concep

t is a classic Baja Bug... I'm calling it the Sand Rat and will start the build next week. I'll be posting as in-depth build report as possible and include hopefully a couple of custom elements. Stay tuned :)

Home Grass Track

This past weekend was great!...got a grass track set up in my garden, just a simple design for now to practise cornering but I will add a jump at least soon.

The X-Pro was doing very well...granted the axles do pick up a lot of grass cuttings, more due to my crappy flymo then probs with the car. I will race with the X-Pro if anyone else around is going to do some 2wd racing... I'm interested to see how it copes with a decent track and other cars of the same class. I might try and get a cheap brushless combo and convert the X-Pro to LiPo later, we'll see...

I've also just revived and also orderd a Losi Brushless combo 10.5t rig for my new car the Schumacher CAT SX2!!. To make all things clear... I got a 6.5t combo from oOple which I will use/keep in a future project, got a good deal on this for only £80. I've also ordered a brand new 10.5t Losi Combo for my CAT SX2 which I will use for racing at Stonehaven.

I'm also waiting on all my LiPo upgrade items, charger, battery etc...should be in next week. Just gotta get the CAT now :)

testing 1, 2...1, 2

Been doing lots of testing and set up drives recently. All on grass which I've not done much of so the results to begin with were quite disappointing.

The car had no power or top end speed on any surface other then slick tarmac or indoors... I'd checked all the main locations for reason for this including the diff and spur gears and of course the slipper clutch all seemed fine. However one was not...the diff.

I'd only checked for damaged not for it being too loose, after a suggestion from an oOple forum frequenter I went back and gave the diff a good couple of turns more to tighten it up. Today's run was really quite good. The car had good off the line speed and could really travel across the ground very fast, not as fast as a brushless but might be able to keep up with some B4's and XXX's out there :)

Sunday at SDRCC

I went to the Stonehaven RC club on Sunday for the first race day of the season. No other 2WD racers showed so I did not actually get a drive. Was great fun though watching and chatting with all the guys. I filmed the Finals so will be uploading all of them to my YouTube Channel soon. The first B Final is already posted.

Scout HQ Drive!

Had another run at the SHQ in Westhill today Raced against with my Brother and his Master Smacker 4x4...used new tires and they worked a lot better...

4x4 still has a huge advantage cornering on the Vinyl surface...

Great fun.

Front Alloy's

Got my front alloy C Cups fitted today...excellent quality.

Not a bad weekend of driving, had a few runs out and about to adjust the slipper clutch. Saturday was great at Camperdown Park in Dundee, blasted around one of the greens of the golf course.

Had a big crash on Sunday though and spun out...landed full force on the left rear and snapped the drive hub. Will get the Alloy hop-up's and titanium Ball Studs, that will fix that issue. Current build cost for my Rat is now about £180... gotta spend maybe £40-£50 more on a couple of carbon parts and the Alloy suspension mounts and that will be her finished and ready to race. Might have everything by the 7th March and Stonehaven first race of the season but if not will be ready for the second round.

A pic of all my current cars..same paint theme on all. From foreground to background...

Ansmann Madrat

Maverick Atom XB

Losi Micro T with VW Baja shell.

Had my first run of the Madrat/X Pro on Sunday...was excellent...huge torque though so on the ice like vinyl floor she spun a lot :)

Was still excellent fun.